[emchammer]

Alaska and Hawaii are also in the US. Perhaps better one for the continent based on high noon at Chicago, and get rid of daylight saving time.

[euroderf]

So we would emulate the mainland Chinese and the Russian railways ?

[emchammer]

It would be coincidental, but it all works out on a human scale, if only we had better trains. It would not make us communists, which by the way, Vietnam is building a high-speed rail link between their two biggest cities for a fraction of the price of California High-Speed Rail.